Nori Bricks

[Retlaw]

In the library this morning I was asked about the myth that NORI was a misspelling of IRON.

When I left school at 14, I serve my apprenticeship as a Pattern Maker at Lang Bridges. We had to put names and numbers on the patterns, it would be impossible to spell either NORI or IRON wrong, the names and numbers were mostly made of lead and came in boxes and were glued or nailed to the pattern, sometimes on a separate block so the moulder could stamp them in the mould before the metal was poured.

If you don't believe just print IRON or NORI on a piece of paper and hold it to a mirror, the R is the wrong way round.

Retlaw.

[cashman]

ya got me beat retlaw whats that to do with a misspelling or not?

[MargaretR]

I thought that it had been placed wrongly vertically on the chimney
N
O
R
I

remember seeing it like that -still there?

[steeljack]

Were Redac and Nori two separate companys or the same company operating under a changed name ?
thanks

[Retlaw]

If you look at an old brick, it has the word NORI Accrington in the frog,
the name was put there by a Pattern Maker when they made the patterns for the original cast iron moulds that impressed the bricks.
Retlaw

Originally Posted by cashman

ya got me beat retlaw whats that to do with a misspelling or not?

[Retlaw]

No it was spelt the right way, if it had been wrong, they would have had old Freer up the chimney double quick, to put it right.

Retlaw.

Originally Posted by margaret@rothwell5.f

I thought that it had been placed wrongly vertically on the chimney
N
O
R
I

remember seeing it like that -still there?

[jaysay]

Well I've always been led to believe that Nori Bricks was named after the chap who started the company, a gentleman by the name of Mr IRON. I was told that by an old Bricky who I worked with many moons ago

[nevvy69]

i use to work at the site when it was marshalls and it was said that the owner told the painter that he wanted IRON painted up the chimney, the painter took it literally and and that is where it all originated from

[entwisi]

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My dad spent many years working at the brickworks after the war. He had many tales about the place

[tosh]

Originally Posted by steeljack

Were Redac and Nori two separate companys or the same company operating under a changed name ?
thanks

it was the same company.

[tosh]

what is now marshalls was part of nori, it was called whinney hill plastic.

[nevvy69]

its now called hansons

[katex]

Originally Posted by nevvy69

its now called hansons

Now owned by a German based company Heidelberg Cement ...

[steeljack]

Originally Posted by katex

Now owned by a German based company Heidelberg Cement ...

Was it also called Accrington Brick and Tile at one time as well ?